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Famous Prophets (Stars) · Car Seat Headrest

EXERCISE 1 OF 81
Groove B -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART S
PART U
BREAK 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesBS12FSU+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Famous Prophets (Stars) on drums

525 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 14:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
525
LENGTH
14:54
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-52, ride through bars 53-68, hi-hat through bars 69-151, silence through bars 152-180 and hi-hat through bars 181-290, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 53 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    443
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Famous Prophets (Stars) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 100, 104, 115, 116, 120, 124 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-39 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-101 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 181-437 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part U -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Famous Prophets (Stars)?

141 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Famous Prophets (Stars) hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

525 bars, about 14:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Famous Prophets (Stars)?

19 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 100, 104, 115, 116, 120, 124 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 525 BARS ANALYSED